Barbara (dee) Ballyk
Associate Professor
Division of Anatomy
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
Dr. Ballyk is from St. Catharines Ontario. She completed her B.Sc. in Life Sciences, her M.Sc. in Anatomy and her Ph.D. in Pharmacology at Queen’s University. Dr. Ballyk is the Faculty Lead for Anatomy for the M.D. Program in the Faculty of Medicine; she is responsible for the development and delivery of gross anatomy, neuroanatomy and histology content in the preclerkship M.D. Program. For the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, she is the Course Director of ANA300Y, Human Anatomy and Histology. Dr. Ballyk has won major teaching awards for both of these roles. She has three times won the W.T. Aikins Award, the Faculty of Medicine’s “most prestigious award for sustained commitment to, and excellence in, undergraduate teaching” in the M.D. Program and the E Mary Hollington Teaching Award (2017). These awards have been in the categories of Individual Teaching Performance, Large Group (2011, 2017) and for Course/Program Development and Coordination (2015). For ANA300Y, she received the Faculty of Medicine’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in Life Sciences (2013).
Research Interest
Human Anatomy and Histology
